The Leader Creative Participants Association (LİYAKAT) is aware of the necessity of starting entrepreneurship training at a young age, based on the motto of ‘It is never too early’. Knowing that tomorrow’s future will start today and with children, LİYAKAT has been carrying out the ‘ENTREPRENEUR CHILDREN’ WORKSHOP’ since 2015 in order to contribute to the entrepreneurship ecosystem, train primary school children as innovative entrepreneur candidates, reveal their creativity and create an entrepreneurial culture.
Dokuz Eylül University faculty member and LİYAKAT Project Committee Chairman Assoc. Prof. Dr. Engin Deniz ERİŞ, who has been providing training to university students and different groups on entrepreneurship for years and has academic publications on entrepreneurship, has been designed with the aim of revealing the entrepreneurship potential of children in the 8-12 age group and raising them as entrepreneur candidates after examining the studies conducted abroad and in the country in detail.
It was developed after 3 years of intensive work; It has become a sustainable program with different contents while the entrepreneurship basis remains the same.
The program, which is carried out by the LİYAKAT Association in cooperation with the Eastern Marmara Development Agency in Kocaeli, Sakarya, Bolu, Düzce, Yalova provinces after İzmir and Denizli, with schools and students determined by the National Education, continues to be carried out in different provinces, especially with the participation of students who do not have the opportunity to access this education in socio-cultural terms.